And then he saw the child. It was a dry and bloated bag of skin that all the ants in the world were dragging toward their holes along the stone path in the garden. Aureliano could not move. Not because he was paralyzed by horror but because at that prodigious instant Melquíades?final keys were revealed to him and he saw the epigraph of the parchments perfectly placed in the order of man’s time and space: The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants.
And then he saw the child. It was a dry and bloated bag of skin that all the ants in the world were dragging toward their holes along the stone path in the garden. Aureliano could not move. Not because he was paralyzed by horror but because at that prodigious instant Melquíades?final keys were revealed to him and he saw the epigraph of the parchments perfectly placed in the order of man’s time and space: The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants.
就在這時，他看到了自己的兒子——一塊皺巴巴的咬爛了的面板，從四面八方聚集擾來的一群螞蟻正把這塊面板沿著花園的石鋪小徑，往自己的洞穴盡力拖去。奧雷連諾·布恩蒂亞一下子呆住了，但不是由於驚訝和恐懼，而是因為在這個奇異的一瞬間，他感覺到了最終破譯梅爾加德斯密碼的奧秘。他看到過羊皮紙手稿的卷首上有那麼一句題辭，跟這個家族的興衰完全相符：“家族中的第一個人將被綁在樹上，家族中的最後一個人將被螞蟻吃掉。”